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Posted on 08/16/2021 12:49:48 AM PDT by Lazamataz
What does the Afghanistan Crisis mean to YOUR LIFE?
The events of the last 72 hours have been breathtaking in their speed and their seriousness. The Taliban has seized power in Afghanistan, after America spent trillions of dollars and thousands of lives trying to install and keep a secular government in that landlocked, opium-producing country. In the rapid advance of the Taliban, ten thousand Americans and hundreds of thousands of Afghan civilian allies have been trapped in the country, with no chance of escape.
Women will be raped; men will be beheaded or tortured....unless we pay the Taliban billions in ransom. The President and his spokesperson, Jennifer Psaki, are nowhere to be found. Biden, as addled as he is with cognitive decline, released a pathetic picture of himself at Camp David, alone and looking dejected (while, by the way, blowing the cover of several CIA Department Heads on the panel of TV sets Biden was looking at), while Psaki has decided to take a week-long vacation starting on August 15th. Calls are going unanswered. Nobody is home at the White House. We have no leadership whatsoever.
What does this mean for YOU?
In the last 72 hours, the standing of America as a force to be feared has evaporated. Every tin-horn dictator, every evil actor, now knows that America is a paper tiger and is rudderless. Our leadership is incompetent and unresponsive to any real crisis. We are much more preoccupied that transexuals and perverts be revered and that those on the political right (you know, the EFFECTIVE people) are called 'domestic terrorists'.
I expect China to move on Taiwan. I expect Islamic terrorists to swarm across our unsecured southern border. I expect great international upheaval, similar to what occurred in the early days before World War II. We may, indeed, have another World War as the powers jockey to take the place of America and the global stabilization she provided.
As international upheaval inevitably happens, you can expect instability in the prices of commodities. Food, energy, products ... all these things will fluctuate wildly in price. An overheated stock market will tumble, costing people billions and trillions of dollars in losses. As terrorist events occur with more frequency and more deadliness, our government will clamp down more and more on personal liberties, perhaps outright ignoring the Constitutional freedoms we have been guaranteed. They have been encroaching on those liberties anyways, with terrorist events occurring more often, they will consider that justification for the outright trampling of our rights.
What does this mean for YOU?
It means rampant inflation and bare store shelves. It means unavailability of products, energy, food. It means domestic police-state tactics to deal with the increase in REAL terrorism, as opposed to the imagined terrorism of 1/6/2021. It means companies will collapse and jobs will evaporate. It means wealth you have laid up will be drained of value quickly.
It means uncertainty, unavailability, and unrest.
What can you do about all of this?
Draw closer to the Lord, and appreciate all you have right now. Prepping is okay, but what will it do but extend your survival for a few more months? The answer is to continue to go on, to go to work as if all is well, to be prudent with your finances to the best of your ability, to be prepared to learn new skills and embark on new careers, to be prepared to remake our country in a sane fashion after the 'woke' are demonstrated to have been utter fools.
The Gods of the Copybook Headings, a poem by Rudyard Kipling, warns us of the way that reality always asserts itself in the face of the insane imaginings of those who deny reality. I would say that America has reached a place of such a dearth of reality (57 genders? REALLY?) that when reality hits, it will be powerful and very painful.
I tend to see the big picture fairly clearly. I can never predict individual events, but I spot trends very early, and I can articulate those observations with brevity. I, for example, predicted the severity of the Covid crisis well before they even gave it a name... and several Freepers who listened to me got a few month head-start in getting ready for the problems in the supply-chain that it caused.
I'm also finding that I have certain leadership characteristics. If we individually survive this, I want to help rebuild the country in the way that the forefathers -- men of great wisdom who suffered many tribulations we shall soon face -- have designed.
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I think Bidet may have to resign over this. Probably 80% he stays, but this whole situation has been so magnificently bungled the democrats better seriously engage in damage control or they may find that not even the Dominion can save their sorry selves.
From the frying pan, into the fire.
Kamala is worse than Biden.
Well said, Laz.....well said
Beautifully, but sadly expressed
You succinctly express our heartbreak and loss.
Keep praying and carry on
Everything you said is true.......but we should try to hold on .....
The Lord knows....Pray for mercy, I sure am
Thanks. Something I forgot to mention is that Twitter suspended a Congressman’s account for even CRITICISING this Biden/Obama/Harris mess.
It’s as if Ma Bell shut a Congressperson’s phone down for speaking against a president.
We have never faced a crises of really bare shelves throughout the grocery store. In the past, if the Hostess Twinkies were gone then then there were still Little Debbies. If every can of beans, every bag of rice, every tin of sardines, and every calorie disappears from the stores then how will our spoiled population behave? They do not have experience at foraging for dandelion roots, cattails, and poke sallet. If we get to the point of truly bare shelves then the violence will be incessant.
I’ve noticed barer shelves even today.
Now, I grant you, the shelves may be barer because of a lack of available employees to stock, but that, too, is a supply-chain disruption.
When I was in DC for the January 6th shindig, I noticed a sea of South Vietnamese flags held by those who had lost one country to communism. There were also anti-CCP Chinese there. I would hate to see the good people of Taiwan who have hosted such men as Alexander Solzhenitsyn and who have given their factory workers up to five times more spending power than workers on the mainland, face an invasion. But given the difficulties in crossing that much water if the Taiwan military have the will to make a fight out of it, and given some Murphy’s Law within the CC operation, Taiwan just may be able to turn back an invasion.
Nineveh. At the time of Jonah.
“So the people of Ninevah believed in God and decreed a fast and put on sackloth from the greatest to the even the least....Let men nor beast herd nor flock....” Jonah 3:5-10
On the positive side, at least the Afghan government is free from a people that require facial coverings, destroy statues, and elevate pederasty.
You know, the United States.
2. Paul Acts Chapter 17
See if you agree or disagree, and let me know here.
3. “If my People which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves and pray...”
4. “When you see all these things take place look up your redemption draws nigh”
I wish you would do more than post sentence fragments, biblical or not. Please try to complete your thoughts in a coherent fashion. Thanks bro!
5. “The just shall live by faith.”
At least Kamala knows what day it is. And she could always offer to trade sex for hostages.
But yeah, I pretty much agree.
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